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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Equiano think is "magic" on the slave ships?
(a) Mermaids and monsters they see in the water.
(b) The stoves the cooks use to heat food on the ship.
(c) How the sailors make the ship move and stop.
(d) The oranges and lemons the sailors use to prevent scurvy.

2. What sign is used to mark an Embrenche?
(a) A scar on the forehead.
(b) A red armband.
(c) A silver badge.
(d) A headdress of feathers.

3. Why does Equiano stop eating on the slave ship?
(a) He is depressed.
(b) He does not like the food.
(c) He hopes if he loses weight no one will want to buy him.
(d) He has stomach flu.

4. What do the Eboe believe about the afterlife?
(a) They have no idea of life after death.
(b) They believe that everyone goes to heaven when they die.
(c) They believe that everyone is reincarnated until they learn how to be virtuous.
(d) They believe that good people are rewarded after death and bad people are punished.

5. While traveling from one place to another in Africa, which of the following does Equiano learn?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Two African languages different from his own.
(c) How to track deer in the forest.
(d) That he is going to be sent to America on a slave ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Equiano is enslaved to a chief, what kind of shop does he work in?

2. How does Equiano explain the difference in skin color between Europeans and Africans?

3. What kind of work do most Eboe people do?

4. How does Equiano say the Eboe punish adultery?

5. Why do Eboe merchants kiss the food they are offering for sale?

(see the answer key)

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